factory safety
Bangladesh Wage Drama Continues: Were Labor Unions Bribed?
The Bangladesh government is set to enact an eagerly anticipated revision of the minimum wage for garment…
Walmart Plans to Publish Factory Inspection Results; Critics Unimpressed
Wal-Mart will finally release the results of a much anticipated audit of its Bangladesh factories for safety…
H&M Doubles Down on Bangladesh, Cambodia: Plans to Tighten Grip on Supply Chain
While many retailers have been plotting an exit strategy from politically precarious Bangladesh and Cambodia…
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Can We Save Dhaka By Splitting it in Half?
Following the Rana Plaza factory collapse, international attention has fixated on the questions of labor…
Breaking News: Bangladesh Factory Manager Taken Hostage By Workers
Hopes that recent concessions by factory owners would quell cascading violence in Bangladesh over a…
Bangladesh Factories: More Pessimism than Progress
Since the Rana Plaza tragedy, industry players have scrambled to organize alliances and develop sound…
Radical Solution to Unsafe Bangladeshi Factories: Move Them
In response to the discovery that Bangladesh’s factory conditions are far worse than anyone reckoned and…
Post Rana Plaza, Bangladesh Workers Still At Risk
The three million Bangladeshis employed in the nation’s $20 billion dollar garment industry remain at risk…
Can Factory Subcontracting Be Stopped?
The proliferation of subcontracting has turned out to be one of the biggest challenges to regulating…
Bangladesh’s First Factory Report Card Shocking
A team of top engineers from a prestigious Bangladeshi university issued the first report card on the…
North American Pact on Bangladesh Draws European Criticism
A North American alliance comprised of seventeen retailers and clothing makers agreed to a five-year pact…
Fast Retailing Sides With Gap, Wal-Mart on Safety Accord
Japan’s Fast Retailing, operators of popular retail chains Uniqlo and Theory, have declined to sign the…
H&M Says It Didn’t Know Its Clothes Were Being Made At Cambodian Factory
The factory where the accident occurred was not approved by H & M, according to a statement from....
Cambodia’s Factory Monitoring Program Fails to Protect Workers, Study Says
According to a recent investigation, the Better Factories Cambodia monitoring program (BFC) fails to protect…
Bangladesh Garment Industry Calls for Higher Overseas Prices
Bangladesh’s attraction for overseas garment retailers has much to do with its low cost of labor, but after a…